Hinge.



' G. E. NEUBERTH.

HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAIL 271 1.915.

Patented Aug. 10,1915.

INVENTOR,

77IWZN ESES Z 75 ATTORNEYS.

COLUMBIA PLANOORAFH CO WASHINQTON, D. c;

cnonen n. ivnuisnnrn, or NEWARK, NEW

HINGE.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it"knownthatl, Gnonon E. NEUBERTH, a citizen of. thefUnitedStates, and aresident of Newark, county of EsseX, and ,State I of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates to an. improved hinge which permits a vertical movement of one part thereof in relation to the other, the

two parts of the hinge being thusadapted to allow the door to bera-ised to be removed from the. hinge entirely or to be. partly raised therefrom as in the case where this hinge is used inconjunction with the kind of hinge thatcis operated by handle to raise or lowera window or thelike to place it in and out of a groove or any -simila'rreceiving structure. H i r i r The invention is designedfto provide a hinge which secures the knuckles on a pintle without neccssarilygiving them any vertical movement whereby the pintle can be permanently headed or soy headed 'thatmit will not ride up out of place, as is very often'the case withpintles having a head covered wooden doors, is not present when only on *one end, so that thefivepoints of contact are always available to give a good bearing and to holdthe knuckles in proper POSltlOIlu a. q

The invention further provldesmeans for attaching the slide of the hingeito a door or like fixture so that the fasten ng means areconcealed whenth'e slide isin place, and

the slide can befurther" constructed to proride means fol-preventing lateral movement of the slide on the door or the like so as to remove excessive shearing strain from the screws that hold the door in place. This hinge is further adapted for use. in com junction with fireproof doorso'f metal or of wood covered with metal, since the slide is so arranged that it can'be bolted or otherwise fastened straight through'the door so that the danger of burning away from the screws, as is sometimes the casewlth iron this form of hinge is used with a bolt or any similar fastening that is passed through the slide and is fastened to the other side of the door. 1 a a The invention is illustrated in its preferred form in theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the hinge. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the hinge shown g Specification of Letters Patent,

' Application filed March 27, 1915.

Serial No. 17,378.

in' lFig. 1 with the top part of one of the hinge leaves and; the slide'insection. Fig. 3 is a top v iew ofthe hinge shown in Fig. with the leaf-andapart of the slide shown in section takenthrough' one of the screw holes in the slide.

r In, the form shown the hinge leaves are hinged together oon a pintle, one hinge leaf 1.0 being of the usual butt type and having screw'holes11 bynmeans of which it is fastened to a frame or similar structure,

and being provided with knuckles 12 which are spaced apart to receive the knuckles 13 of aleaf, 14', the knuckles beingperforated and receiving a pintle 15, and since in; this type of hingeit isgnot necessary for the knuckles of oneleaf to move longitudinally along the pintle, a five-knuckle or a hinge can be used whichprovldes good bearing 1 and long contact, and the heads 16 can therefore be fastened to the ends of the pintle in the bottom because it is usual to withdrawthempintles vur'nvardso '1 as to separate the leaves of the hinge when the doonisto be removed, but in this construction it 1S not I necessary to remove the knuckles from the pintle so that the'pintle can be permanently put in place.

The leaf 1% is provided with a part 18 which can be disposed in any desired manher, but inthe' form shown it is formed at right-angles to the leaf 14 so as to form an L-shaped leaf and it is provided with a guideway 19 opening at the back thereof in a reduced portion 20 so as to retain the slide which fits therein by having the outermost .part of theguideway narrower than the inner portion. The slide 21 fits in the guideway 20 and slides vertically therein, the

slide 21 being prevented from having anyforward movement by reason of the guide, way not being put to the frontof the leaf so that a front wall 22 is formed opposite the front of the slide.

To provide meansfor limiting the vertical Patented Aug. 10,1915;

'or what might be termed the ihwardinovement of the slide, different means can beidetherewith it prevents 'it from anyflfurther downward movement. To fastenthe slide to the; door, window or other suitable element, I provide screw holes, such as 24:, which need not necessarily be of the type shown, these screw holes being hidden when the slide is in place and being adapted to receive screws or boltsto be fastened to the door. To prevent excessive; shearmg or s1de strain on the screWs I provide bosses which can be suitably disposed, but are preferably arranged concentric 'f'tO the screw holes, these bosses'i2'5lproiecting from-the rear of the slide and being of any desired shape but preferably round so as to make' it easyto provide recesses in the door for them by means of an ordinary slide. When these bosses' are set 1n suitablere'cesses. in g the door they act to bear thereonand to prevent side movement of the door relative-to I the slide and "thus assume thetransverse strain which might come on the screws. with out these bosses.

It will be evident that whsnniis'hing s fastened to a doorand its frame,:or to similar -structures,-the door can be lifted from the hinge by swinging the door open and then giving it"a"vertical lift until the slide is disengaged from the part lsofthe hinge leaf, and it can be just aseasily attached to,

the hinge by reversingthe above described .movements. 1

' pintle and there is'no vertical movement on These hinges are desirable because there is always the full five point. bearing on the the pintle and consequently less tendency to loosen the screws.

oneof the leaves having a guideway on its rear face, a slide fitting in the guideway, the part of the slide fittingin the guideway 7 having means adapting it to be secured to an element to be supported, said means being concealedby said leaf when the slide is in place, and co-acting meansgon the slide and on the leaf in which it slides to limitthe sliding of the slide.

. 2.,-A -hinge comprising pair'of leaves,

one of the leaves having a guideway oil-its rear face, the guideway being narrowedat its outer portion, a slide. in the guideway,

the part of the slide fitting in the guideway having holes therein for the receptioni of screws or the like, bosses on the rear'of said slide and surrounding the screw holes,"and" means for limiting the sliding movement of the slide infthe guidewayi 3. A hinge comprising a -p a1r Of'leitVGS,

one of. said leaves having a guidewayon its rear face, and a slide 111 sa1d"g'u1deway,-the slide having a projectlng 11p to engage the "top edge of theleaf to limitthe downward movement of said slide, the slide having screwholesitherein, said screw holes being concealed by said leaf when the slide'is in place, the. slide havingbosses on its rear face. I.

7 GEORGE E. NEUBERTHQ 'VVitnesses:

M. A. JoHNsoN, H. TRAUTVET ER- copiesof this patent may beobtained for five cents each, :by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

. f -Washington,D.G. i

. 751 I In testimony that I claim the foregoingg 1 hereto set my hand this 26th day of March, 

